Jessica Alba: Don't Call Me Mexican!

By Molly Celaschi - Posted on June 15th, 2007

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A disturbing hoard of quotes by Jessica Alba have been collected by Perez Hilton. I would add something here, but she says it all herself.

"I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out."

"My grandfather was the only Mexican at his college. He and my grandmother didn't speak Spanish to their children. Now, as a third-generation American, I feel as if I have finally cut loose."

"I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere."

"George Lopez starts speaking to my father in Spanish, and my dad says, 'I don't speak Mexican.' He has no filter. I probably acquired that characteristic from him."

“I'm less Latina than Cameron Diaz, whose father is Cuban. But people don't call her Latina because she's blonde."